Taking the money and paying themselves dividends is a very hard thing to justify.
What do you think changed? Trump supporters are going to vote extra hard?
61% of Michigan residents polled trust their governor’s measures, 34% trust Trump
No they are not. If people realized that companies stopped producing what they normally do (exaple, a distilarry in Utah stopped making wiskey and started making hand sanatizer) and quickly switched to making what people were most in need of (you know – my pillow switching from pillows and sheets to face masks). The ony thing needed was for the federal government/state goverments to suspend some regulations. Shows that government is the problem in many cases.
No it won’t.
Are you ready to share your living space with at least 1 or 2 others? How about government taking some of your money (that other deem execise) and giving it to others? If not why not?
And that’s a a complete lie. Many libs want free free free free – so they turn to the wealthy. Who you going to turn to when you’ve taken all their wealth, and they decide it’s not worth it? Will the government then take over and run all companies? Will the government then tell citizens who they have to work for?
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Utah is not under a mandatory stay at home order, and our cases have flattened.
Isn’t that one of the protections House Democrats tried to have inserted into the bill?
Then people need to not buy what those companies are selling, or find a competitor who is more honest. You do have that right you know.
How about we simply don’t write bills that allow them to take advantage of the pandemic which in turn costs taxpayers billions of dollars?
Here is a different idea.
System isnt broken.
I know -No one will agree with me. But its not. Our PRIORITIES are broken. But not the system.
Somehow - a large number of people agreed with Trickle down Economics so much, that it drove them to always vote the same way regardless of what facts and evidence have shown over the past 40 years.
The system did what it was designed to do - Change to reflect what a majority of voters wanted the society to look like. So the result was a widening wealth gap, lower and lower and lower taxes, a permanent wealth class, a permanent lower class, little movement between, etc…etc…
Its not the system that broke. Its us that broke.
If we decided the priorities are different, If we decide that we want a bigger safety nest for individuals, regulation that still rewards innovation and allows market to pick winners and losers, but a true progressive tax system that priorities a safety net for individuals and a trickle up economy, not a trickle down - We can fix it.
Again - Not socialism but also not MORE reduction in taxes. Capitalism was alive and well in the 50’s and 60’s despite MUCH higher taxes for rich individuals and corporations.
US style Capitalism has not failed. Our priorities and belief in Trickle down economics failed.
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How about the bills be written completely correct? You know where someone making 7 dollars and hour doesn’t get paid over 15 dollars an hour on unemployment? Or someone who continues to work and will continue to work doesn’t get $1,200 (for that matter anyone who gets the 15 an hour on unemployment doesn’t get the 1,200 either)?
I had an American dream when I was young, that if I got a degree in an area that I’d choose to work in, then learned that trade from others who were experienced in these endeavors, gave my best efforts, sacrificed the wants I had for today…for the necessities that I’d need tomorrow…maybe, just maybe…I could achieve that dream? It took approximately a decade and a tad to become an entrepreneur. Then I grew it, still sacrificing wants for the tools necessary to grow. As I grew, so did the revenue and so did the number of employees. I then taught the next generation the different skills I’d learned along the way, to help them learn…This caused me to grow even more and at a faster rate. By delegating more to others, I was able to manage their efforts and coordinate many things to work as one unit with a common goal. Today it’s coming up on four decades. The next generation is very capable and highly skilled. When I retire, I know they’ll continue on pursuing their American dream and with the skills they have acquired, they’ll most likely achieve it. This is the American way.
Why people think so small, with no vision and decide to buy their goods from Amazon…making one man very rich but at the expense of so many other entrepreneurs…is truly shallow. If each Amazon customer could see the damage they are doing to their local economies due to this choice and so many other very similar choices, where their decision is making a very few super wealthy, instead of keeping that wealth in your own community, that will come back around to you…in the long run…is puzzling to me?
Then I read this lazy OP where what’s actually being said is to give up the American dream, settle for a small income and never find that inner satisfaction of actually accomplishing something on a large scale…is frightening. It’s a total loss of hope and it’s very sad to me.
Don’t give up and settle for small. Think big. Pursue your dream. Plan it out. Understand the education you’ll need to accomplish your goals and then put your nose to the grindstone and do it. I can personally witness…it can be done but it takes a lot of dedication, hard work, sacrifice and a well thought out plan.
Do not be a little piggy that builds their house of straw. Go for it and build your house with bricks.
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This company in question is a REIT.
It is the epitome of rentier capitalism.
how about we concern ourselves more with companies and the ultrarich fleecing the rest of the country instead of people making minimum wage
Power to the masses Comrade! Down with the Bourgeois!!!
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How does someone making $7 an hour survive in the US in 2020?
How about not.
You are only concerned about taking from the Rich. What hanneps when their are no more rich people to take from. You know – like the politician in New York that last year was lamenting they couldn’t raise taxes much more, because the people they are taxing are leaving the state and the only ones that are become the remaining are the takers.
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OP is not giving up on the American dream, he’s proposing policies that he think will help more people achieve it.
Under our current system, I give tax dollars to a airline that just spent 3 years pumping their own stock, investing in nothing of value using loans and debt. Our system will quickly and happily give them money just so the investors won’t be bothered with a mild chapter 11 bankruptcy. The stewardess who gets laid off afterwards isn’t even allowed to get relief from her student loans in chapter 7 bankruptcy.
I don’t agree with the specifics of the OP, but I agree with his recognition of the problems. We can do better than this.
your way of thinking if going to be tossed out like yesterdays rubbish
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You go to far.
On that last part, I agree but what was being proposed at the beginning would not inspire dreams, it’d retire them.
100 million armed rednecks… And you think they’re going to peacefully let the left impose their socialist Utopia upon them?
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